Word: courtship
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...Sequels flourish especially in conservative times, when audiences are in retreat from the shock of the new. Which is why you could place a small bet on a Bush re-election; voters may choose the sequel to a wild ride over a four-year courtship with Kerry and Edwards. But if this is so, how to explain the surprise-hit status of Fahrenheit 9/11? Simple. It too is a sequel: the latest in the continuing adventures of Michael Moore, populist rebel with a cause. Remember Bowling for Columbine, kids, when Mike confronted the gun lobby and vanquished an aged Charlton...
...Professor Sendhil Mullainathan, one of the world’s top young economists, has accepted a tenured spot on the Harvard faculty next spring, following more than a year of courtship...
Daniel J. Benjamin ’99, a graduate student in economics who knew Mullainathan during his time studying at Harvard, said during the courtship that if the professor came to Harvard it “would make a big difference” for the department...
...began preparing for the show as far back as summer break, gradually building a staff of familiar faces from past shows. “Basically it’s a whole process of courtship,” she says. “So you convince everyone how incredible the show is, how incredible the ideas are, how together you are as a director...
Annie was really happy to finally see some intergender interaction. Because Annie is on the social committee, she is better versed in the subtleties of courtship, so she decided that we should all play the Dating Game. But, in the version of the dating game that I’ve watched on TV the girl always leaves with one of the bachelors. I asked the guys questions and they made up phony answers to try to outdo each other’s smashing wit. The strained chicanery was finally over when one of the guys announced that...